This video is tutorial on how to change the color of your menu bar on you mac! Link to leocolor bar: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/LeoColorBa. The Mac OS X menu bar is a great tool for increasing your productivity, but left unchecked it just ends up a big mess. There may be icons up there for unidentified applications or icons you’d like to get rid of if you just knew how.
When you make your own toolbar in Office 2011 for Mac, some of the commands you’ve chosen might not have nice icons, or any icon for that matter. You can control whether to display a command’s icon, text description, or both from the Customize Toolbars and Menus dialog. This is a super-powerful dialog in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that lets you exert total control over all the toolbars and menus.
To see the command controls, right-click a command button and choose Properties. The Command Properties dialog appears.
Changing a command button icon
While the Command Properties dialog for any toolbar button is displayed, take these steps to change the button icon for this command:
Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a command button
As if that weren’t enough customization, you can set or change the keyboard shortcut for any command. Remember that it’s possible to do this customization in Word and Excel only, not PowerPoint. To proceed with assigning keyboard shortcuts, follow these steps:
Fine-tuning toolbar and button properties
Using the Command Properties dialog, you can do more to customize buttons:
Using Customize Toolbars and Menus dialog, you can do the following:
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Is there a way to change the color or appearance of the mac menu bar from the standard gray?
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Unfortunately, there's no setting to change the color of the menu bar itself.
LeoColorBar
As penguinrob suggests, you could set the menubar to translucent, and influence its color by changing the color of the part of the wallpaper underneath the menubar. LeoColorBar, pictured below, basically automates that for you.
Despite the fact that it hasn't been updated in a while, it's worked perfectly for me in Lion.
A black menu bar
Alternatively, there are applications like Nocturne that you can use to set your menu bar to dark gray.
MenuBarFilter is another application based on Nocturne that turns your menu bar black.
The latter two applications, however, didn't work very well for me in Lion (especially in full-screen mode), so your best bet would be to stick with LeoColorBar.
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In System Preferences, go to General. Check 'Use dark menu bar and Dock'. It will then change your menu bar and Dock to be a dark color.
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You can use the free LeoColorBar utility. It's very simple, and seems to work very well: just choose the preferred color, change its darkness, and you're all set. As a bonus, you can change your wallpaper within the app as well, and add arbitrary text to the menu.
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In System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Desktop, you can check Translucent Menu Bar, which allows some of your wallpaper to show through.
http://eece.github.com/MenuBarFilter/ allows you to have a black menu bar, although last time I tried it, there were issues with full-screen apps on Lion.
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Penguinrob, In order to change the color of the menu bar, follow the below mentioned steps properly:-1. Go to Apple menu> System preferences. Then click on Desktop and screen saver.
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Theres an app called MenuBar Filter. All you have to do is open the app and your menubar will become grey/black.
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